More from John Kenneth Galbraith

  1. The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
  2. The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justifica…
  3. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
  4. There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
  5. One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
  6. Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sp…
  7. Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
  8. Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

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